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What does your feature entail?

Add an option to hide the tab bar in Settings > Appearance. This would work similarly to “Show Bookmarks Bar”, where the default is enabled (in this case, to show the tab bar). When disabled, Orion would not render the tab bar, though the user would always be able to click/tap the tab button or use a gesture to show tabs.

What is it for?

I find the tab bar to be a waste of space: the text is too small and with more than a few tabs open, the text is almost completely cut off. Additionally, on mobile and low desktop display resolutions, the bar takes up already precious pixels. I have low vision, making the situation significantly worse.

How will it affect existing workflows or user experience?

I do not believe this will affect existing workflows or user experience: it is entirely optional.

What are the exact ways that you see a user using your proposed feature? Please go into as much detail as possible, and provide examples of how other browsers/apps implement this feature, if applicable. If your feature suggestion adds on to an existing feature, how would it work into it to extend its usefulness?

Interested users would go to Settings > Appearance and disable “Show Tab Bar”. This would stop Orion from rendering the bar, just as is the case with “Show Bookmarks Bar” and declutter the page.

    • eirk

    • Post #2

    Try enabling focus mode (both for mobile and desktop). Does this kinda do what youre looking for?

    desktop:
    menu bar item: View->Enable Focus Mode

    mobile:
    Settings->Browsing->Focus Mode

      I found that on an iPad, I ran into issues with website menus, where the page did not move its menu up to the top, but left an annoying gap. I just checked on macOS and am having no problems so far. That said, and although I like the clean screen (especially since I have the Mac's menu bar automatically hide), but I still would like the basic upper bar of tools and such, without the tab bar.

      Interestingly, macOS behavior for setting the tab bar to "Vertical" fixes this: it removes it from under the toolbar and reveals tabs as a list. But on iPadOS, the same setting does not hide the tab bar at all, so "Vertical" doesn't help.

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